This $22.5-million, LEED-Silver project consolidates programs such as English as a second language and disability support into a bright and airy two-story learning center.
A philanthropic organization sought a peaceful new headquarters that embraces and protects the surrounding environment while serving as a model for future green building projects.
Built in 1956 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the 105-ft-tall, earthen-saddle Mormon Island Auxiliary Dam had a foundation that was deemed at high risk of liquefaction during an earthquake.
With new lab space, a museum and dynamic exhibits of sustainability, the 330,000-sq-ft Exploratorium in San Francisco triples the size of the previous site at the 1915 Palace of Fine Arts.
One of the state's first passive-HVAC commercial buildings, the teaching and research facility named for a winery pioneer is located on one acre of the Robert Mondavi Research campus at the University of California, Davis.
Since the mid-1990s, the two-lane road connecting U.S. Highway 1 with Santa Barbara County's Jalama Beach park had experienced excessive cracking and settlement, primarily because of a relocation in the 1960s to a site across from an old landslide.
Capable of recycling 100,000 gallons of water per day, the project diverts raw sewage from a large pipeline and treats it using a membrane bioreactor, followed by ozonation and UV irradiation so that the water can be used for irrigation and toilet flushing in nearby commercial buildings.
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